Nicols Fen photos

Views of Nicols Fen. Top to bottom:

• View of the fen on a cloudy day.

• Boy Scout volunteers on a restoration project pack in to the fen.

• After they helped eradicate invasive reed canary grass (with herbicides), the Scouts planted native carex stricta or hummock sedge.

• The red-stem aster, a native fen plant.

• High quality fibrous peat on the left — and, on the right, degraded peat with reed canary grass root mass.

(Photos: Mark Cleveland, DNR.)